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My research which involved interviewing key negotiators, led me to conclude that the failure of Kosovo negotiations was a result of missed opportunities on the part of negotiators, which could partly be explained through their unwillingness to cooperate but even further by their inability to take advantage when such opportunities arose.

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Negotiating Kosovo: The Role of the International Community as a Mediator (32KB.pdf)

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This research focuses solely on student led mobilization campaigns and their ability to channel expressions of public opinion.

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Political Action from Below: Youth Participation in Ukraine's Orange Revolution (124KB.pdf)

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This research project concerns nomadic-sedentary interactions between Early Iron Age (1000- 500 B.C.) nomadic steppe groups (the Cimmerians and Scythians) with sedentary societies in the Ukrainian forest-steppe (the Chornolisska culture) and its impact on the development of Scythian society.

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Worlds Connected: Cimmerian-Scythian Nomadic-Sedentary Interaction in the Ukrainian Iron Age (24KB.pdf)

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The purpose of my research was to study the nature of civil society in Transnistria through its participants.

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Organization in Isolation: A Study of Participation in Transdnistrian Civil Society (31KB.pdf)

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This project set out to explore sovereignty and the state in Moldova by investigating the tension between sovereignty as the locus of the international state system and its local practice.

Ethnographically, this project explored how social and economic practices - licit and illicit economic activities - traverse localized sovereign networks operating in this region. During my research, I investigated how this social and economic "distinctiveness‟ (more of a rhetorical than an objective difference) was reflected in political life in Transnistria.

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Sovereignty and Statehood in the Republic of Moldova (256KB.pdf)

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I propose a theoretical framework that illuminates the conditions that limit the seat-maximizing behavior of incumbents and test it through a comparative analysis of three cases of electoral reform in Bulgaria.

Building on Tsebelis‟ (1991) notion of “nested games,” I distinguish theoretically between short-term electoral threat (losing the upcoming election under existing regime) and extraparliamentary threat to the regime (the possibility of major reform of the political system and threat to the dominant role of the incumbent).

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Mechanisms of Electoral System Choice: Bulgaria 1990, 1991, 2009 (253KB.pdf)

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Does Islam promote or hinder democracy in the Muslim world?

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Islam & Democracy: Can Islamic Institutions Promote Civil Liberties & Diminish Radicalism in the Muslim Central Asia? (265kb)

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My research focused on center-regional relations in Russia regarding important economic assets that in the 1990s were under the control of republics.

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Assymetric Federalism and Property Rights in Russia (224KB pdf)

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This project engages with the broad themes of nation-building and geopolitics, taking the perspective that elite national identity projects serve as the foundation for the development of geopolitical culture and traditions in a given state.

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Nation-Building and Regionalism in Post-Independence Kazakhstan

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The Civil Society Strengthening Project (CSSP) in Rwanda released this Request for Applications (RFA) as part of a search for 40 national-level Rwandan civil society organizations to participate in an 18-month project to strengthen their capacity to contribute to national-level public policy formulation and implementation.  Successful applicants receive an initial operational capacity grant of US $5,000, as well as training, technical assistance, and potential future grants focused on strengthening operational, outreach, and advocacy capacity.

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RFA Operational Capacity Grants (English).doc

RFA Operational Capacity Grants (French).doc